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The Confessions of a Member of the Church of England, Occasioned by a Laborious Examination of the Work William Jones, Entitled 'the Catholic
The Confessions of a Member of the Church of England Occasioned by a Laborious Examination of the Work William Jones Entitled 'the Catholic Author:John Shaw Title: The Confessions of a Member of the Church of England, Occasioned by a Laborious Examination of the ... Work ... William Jones, Entitled 'the Catholic Doctrine of a Trinity.' and Also, a Brief Essay on Socinianism General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1830 Original Publisher: Marsh and Miller Notes: This is a ... more »black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Ephesians (6. 18, 19), " Praying always with all " prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and " watching thereunto with all perseverance and " supplication for all Saints, and for me, that " utterance may be given unto me, that I may " open my mouth boldly :" adding, that for this cause he was ' ' an ambassador in bonds." And to the Thessalonians (1 Thess. 5. 25), " Brethren, " pray for us ;" and, at the 19th v., " Quench not I can discover no intimation of a third Person in the Deity in any of these passages, nor in any other, when fairly examined, in the whole Bible. If the words, " He that searcheth the hearts " knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit," were expressed in plain language, according to the Athanasian idea, the passage would stand thus : -- " The first Person of the Trinity knoweth what " is the mind of the third Person, by searching " his heart !" This, I conceive, plainly shows that the word Spirit, in the text, cannot mean a person in the Godhead. The Holy Ghost commissions to the work of No. %. the Ministry. " Take heed unto yourselves, and to all the Acts xx. 28, " flock over which the Holy Ghost hath made " you overseers." Let us compare these words with some other expressions in the various discourses of the same Apostle. To the Corinthians, he says -- " By the grace " of God I am what I am; I laboured more " abundantly tha...« less